Title: The Pursuit of Interfaith Dialogue
Presenter: L. Ripley Smith, PhD
Date/Time: Wednesday, Oct. 15, 6-7 pm EST
Description: Interfaith dialogue is both a practice and a movement in response to long-running intergroup conflicts. Faith communities, in turn, are wrestling with the binary tension between increasing global interdependencies and preservation of orthodox identity. The webinar will address questions like: (1) Is dialogue uniquely suited to cultivate collaborative relationships between religions? (2) What are the trade-offs between current approaches to interfaith dialogue? and, (3) What new insights and methodologies are contributing to best practices in IFD.
Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m4jbi1R0RTa8Q17fEypxfg
L. Ripley Smith, PhD (University of Minnesota) is Professor of Intercultural and Media Communication at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, USA. His research focuses on immigrant acculturation, identity and social support networks, the intersection of faith and culture, and the role of trust in post-conflict regions. A Fellow and President-elect in the International Academy of Intercultural Research, he is the co-author of Communicating in Intercultural Spaces (Routledge), as well as other publications appearing in The Handbook of Intercultural Communication (Sage), Communication Science and Linguistics for Business Administration and Management (Peter Lang), Organizational Trust (Cambridge U. Press), The Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict (Springer Press),and The International Journal of Intercultural Relations, the International and Intercultural Communication Annual, The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the International Journal of Communication.